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		cafard 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe? At this point I say, "Get your elbow out of my ribs. I'm not laughing because I don't get, I'm not laughing because it isn't that great." According to some USAF colonel whose stuff has been linked on HN, Wolfe got Yeager's crash wrong. According to those who inspected the capsule, Wolfe got Grissom's Mercury exit wrong. Is HN impressed by his take on Chomsky or Darwin? [edit] On the other hand Ken Kesey spoke well of him.

aidenn0 9 months ago [–]

Grissom's Mercury exit was in line with what NASA thought before they recovered the capsule. It's tough to blame a journalist for being no more wrong than NASA about the results of a space mission.

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